Adolf Zika was born
in 1972 in the town of Prachatice. In 1994, he began with photography and a year
later won first place in the most contended category of the Czech Press Photo. In
the fall of the year 2000, he was selected among six photographers of the world
to represent the renowned brand Leica at Photokina in Cologne and was given the
same honor by the Olympus brand four years later. Adolf Zika’s photographs were
already sold at the Paris Photo in Louvre and many other countries throughout the
world. You may find Adolf Zika’s photographs not only in many calendars that he
authored, but also in a retrospective book of black-and-white photographs Luxurious
Luminescence.
In 2006 Adolf Zika made a documentary film about Jan Saudek, a world-renowned photographer,
with a subtitle "Trapped by his passions, No hope for rescue", which won the Glass
Eye Award for the Best Documentary Film at EuroFest in Montreal. In 2008 he filmed
a documentary about the most famous automobile race in the world The 24 Hours of
Le Mans entitled Le Mans Phenomenon.